Okay, this will distract you for at least a minute or two.... About 9 years ago, I was at work quite early in the morning. At some point, I trotted over to the well-stocked break room (seriously well-stocked, they had bread, cheese, cold cuts, condiments, soft drinks, animal crackers, it was amazing) for a drink. I selected apple juice and strolled back to my office. Since I had the building to myself, I started singing about my newly-acquired apple juice, to the tune of the A-Team theme song. Right up until passed an open door and spotted a co-worker at her desk. Soooo, I did the most sensible thing you could do in 2006 - I made a LiveJournal Voice Post about it! My post included a small sample of my singing. A friend commented that she needed better quality samples (O_o) so I left some additional stuff on her voicemail - later that day, I received this masterpiece

Cheers :-)

Next Morning Edit - This was a little more popular than I anticipated, so instead of potentially crushing my monthly bandwidth limit hosting it on a personal site, I've converted it to a video and uploaded it to YouTube. Glad y'all liked it!

IMO it looked boring when it was Ingress and it still looks boring as Pokemon Go, but what makes it the Most Tiresome Thing is exactly what you said, people take any criticism of the game as a condemnation of their personal lifestyle, resulting in this endless flood of sanctimonious facebook updates, complete with melodramatic .jpgs about how the game helps people get exercise, and meet other players, and spend time with their kids and blah blah blah blah. Like, it's okay for you to like a shitty game, dude, we don't all need your laundry list of justifications for it. You know?

This situation seems kinda bullshitty, though - certainly the rules differ from enclave to enclave but Amish are allowed to make use of technology when it provides a clear benefit to their community. They justify making phone calls when necessary, as well as riding in cars... IMHO the onus should be on him to find a way to justify the acquisition of a photo ID, that satisfies his religious beliefs.